{"id":7002,"date":"2020-06-20T05:36:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T05:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7002"},"modified":"2020-06-20T05:36:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T05:36:01","slug":"man-charged-with-weapons-drug-offences-cessnock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/man-charged-with-weapons-drug-offences-cessnock\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with weapons, drug offences &#8211; Cessnock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after weapons and drugs were allegedly located following a search warrant at a home in Cessnock yesterday.<br \/>\nAbout <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">11am<\/a> (Friday 19 June 2020), officers from Hunter Valley Police District Target Action Group stopped a car in Quarrybylong Street and spoke with the driver, a 26-year-old man.<br \/>\nDuring a search of the car, police allegedly located an electronic stun device and a home-made pistol. Police also located a quantity of methylamphetamine and ammunition for the pistol.<br \/>\nPolice then conducted a search warrant at a house in High Street, Cessnock. During the search, police allegedly located a further quantity of methylamphetamine, a home-made garotte, machetes and knives.<br \/>\nThe man was charged with 11 offences, including;<br \/>\npossess unregistered pistol<br \/>\npossess prohibited firearm<br \/>\npossess ammunition<br \/>\npossess prohibited weapon (x3)<br \/>\nsupply a prohibited drug<br \/>\npossessing a prohibited drug (x2)<br \/>\npossess prescribed restricted substance<br \/>\ncontravene Firearm Prohibition Order<br \/>\nThe man was refused bail and appeared in Newcastle Local Court today (Saturday 20 June 2020). He has formally been refused bail and will re-appear in the same Court <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/6\">on Monday 22 June 2020<\/a>.<br \/>\nInquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged after weapons and drugs were allegedly located following a search warrant at a home in Cessnock yesterday. About 11am (Friday 19 June 2020), officers from Hunter Valley Police District Target Action Group stopped a car in Quarrybylong Street and spoke with the driver, a 26-year-old man. During a search of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/man-charged-with-weapons-drug-offences-cessnock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man charged with weapons, drug offences &#8211; Cessnock&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}